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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning technology have empowered people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Niue to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Researchers want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding demand for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also articulates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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